Mostly, we don’t, but we continue to pray despite the feeling that our prayer won’t in fact change the situation. Why? Why pray when it seems useless to do so? Theologians and spiritual writers have ...

VATICAN— During his Angelus address Sunday, Pope Francis asked his listeners to consider the qualities necessary for good leadership. “Brothers and ...

"Isn't it interesting that, of all things, the pope would give us, precisely at this moment, an encyclical on the Sacred ...

Second Thessalonians deals with the issues that Paul brought up in his initial communication to this congregation. His main ...

As Catholics prepare to head to the polls on Nov. 5, Church leaders are reminding their flocks that voting isn’t our only ...

Father Bednar proffered his view that praying the St. Michael Prayer after Mass “ends the liturgy with a private devotion, a ...

In his Angelus address on Friday, the solemnity of All Saints, Pope Francis spoke about the “identity card” of the Christian.

I saw a post on X from the editor of the Free Press, Bari Weiss, which asked, ‘Who is the intellectual successor to the beloved, late Rev. Timothy Keller?’ There ...

Sincerely praying for your friends, when you can't directly help them, is one of the best ways to support them. May God answer your prayers when they are truly from the heart. Almighty and eternal God ...

His feast is shared with St. Simon, who was also said to be a cousin of Jesus and is believed to have traveled to Persia with Jude, where they were both martyred. The following prayer can be ...

And it’s important to remember the reality into which we will speak our prayers. Consider Psalm 121:1-2. In the ESV translation, it begins, “I lift my eyes up to the hills.” Notice the “h ...